2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 3.
Michael Vaz — a tutor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Karen Morris — a veterinary student from Christiansburg, Virginia
Iris Masucci — a pharmacist from Rockville, Maryland
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iris | $1,800 | $2,800 | $7,700 |
$5,400
Finalist |
$7,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Karen | $200 | $3,600 | $10,400 |
$5,399
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,400
17 R, 3 W |
| Michael | $-200 | $2,000 | $2,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
15 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE | BOOK TOCK | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE | UNION ACTIONS | SAY, "BUSTER" | LEGEND DAIRY |
|
$200
[30]
Danica McKellar is a big-city event planner who goes home to Tenn. to work a "Christmas at" this theme park... & maybe find love
Dollywood
Karen
|
$200
[28]
Cinderella is warned by her godmother that if she stays at the ball after midnight, her coach will be one of these again
a pumpkin
Michael
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$200
[25]
Songs from this 2016 film include "Another Day Of Sun" & "City Of Stars"
La La Land
Karen
|
$200
[29]
Cemetery Ridge was the site of the decisive action at this 1863 battle, with the Union emerging victorious
Gettysburg
Karen
|
$200
[26]
Harry Houdini was called one of these in 1930, half a century before Bill Murray
a ghostbuster
Iris
|
$200
[13]
If you wanna give your cream cheese some pizzazz, add some of these, which are related to the onion
chives
Michael
|
|
$400
[24]
A woman falls for the son of the man out to close her toy store in the alliteratively titled this Mass. island "Noel"
Nantucket
Karen
|
$400
[22]
In "Peter Pan", this pirate's arm was eaten by a crocodile that also swallowed a ticking clock
Captain Hook
Karen
|
$400
[18]
Originally a small linen store in New Jersey, this home furnishing chain filed for bankruptcy in 2023
Bed Bath & Beyond
Karen
|
$400
[27]
Union General Sheridan said, "No one did more to win the war than this"Boy General"& sent his wife the Appomattox surrender table
Custer
Michael
|
$400
[23]
Originally meaning a very big bomb, now it's a movie that's a very big not bomb
a blockbuster
Karen
|
$400
[11]
Back in 1936 Louis Meyer drank buttermilk on Victory Lane after winning this auto race & a tradition was born
the Indy 500
Iris
|
|
$600
[4]
Writer of many a Christmas film, Anna White got down to business in 2021 with "Christmas" this 3-letter top job at a company
CEO
Michael
|
$600
[17]
Thisauthor created Tik-Tok of Oz, a mechanical man who ran on clockworks
L. Frank Baum
Karen
|
$600
[1]
Seen here, it's a mix of Hawaiian & Asian-themed appetizers
pu pu platter
Iris
|
$600
[20]
Union victory at the September 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam emboldened President Lincoln to take this historic action 5 days later
the Emancipation Proclamation
Michael
|
$600
[16]
To "come on like" these law enforcers means to do something with great force or speed
gangbusters
Karen
|
$600
[10]
P.T. Anderson said the line in "There Will Be Blood" about drinking this was inspired by testimony in the Teapot Dome scandal
milkshake
|
|
$800
[6]
A bit after going on a bender in "The Breakfast Club", this actor met Santa Jr. in 2002; don't you forget about him
Judd Nelson
Iris
|
$800
[21]
Published in 1930, "The Secret of the Old Clock" was the first mystery this teen detective solved
Nancy Drew
Iris
|
$800
[2]
When you buy one of these, like a McDonald's or an Arby's, you might have to pay the parent company a percentage of sales
a fast food franchise
|
$800
[14]
Outnumbered & outgunned, Union Major Robert Anderson surrendered this Charleston harbor spot April 13, 1861
Fort Sumter
Iris
|
$800
[5]
In the 1850s, it meant an American who caused conflict in Latin America; a bit later, it came to mean a tactic in a legislature
a Filibuster
Michael
|
$800
[9]
Since 1911, a hallmark of its state fair is acowsculpted from about 600 pounds of butter
the Iowa State Fair
Iris
Karen
Michael
|
|
$1,000
[7]
It's not the Magi--nor Selleck, Danson & Guttenberg--but a trio of brothers who find themselves caring for a tot in this 2022 film
Three Wise Men and a Baby
Michael
|
$1,000
[19]
In "Great Expectations", all the clocks in her house stopped at 20 minutes to 9, when she learned of her fiancé's betrayal
Miss Havisham
Michael
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
4 young men of Navarre face off against 4 ladies in a game of courtship in this Shakespeare comedy
Love's Labour's Lost
Iris
|
$1,000
[15]
Black Union sailors John H. Lawson & James Mifflin got the Medal of Honor for their actions at the 1864 battle of this Alabama bay
Mobile Bay
|
$1,000
[8]
A 1906 newspaper article examined Teddy Roosevelt's record as one of these, based on enforcement of the Sherman Act
trust buster
Iris
|
$1,000
[12]
Jamie Lee Curtis said she did ads for this yogurt brand so that she could spend more time at home with her family
Activia
Karen
|
| FOLKLORE & LEGEND | SAMPLING | FIRST LADIES' MAIDEN NAMES | PHILOSOPHY | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS | EUR"O"s |
|
$400
[28]
Also called Bigfoot, it's the Salish word for a huge, hairy man-monster said to inhabit Pacific Northwest woods
Sasquatch
Karen
|
$400
[26]
When searched by works as an artist, whosampled.com lists 8,840 tracks that sampled this "hardest working man in show business"
James Brown
Iris
|
$400
[30]
Better known as Pat: Thelma Ryan
(Pat) Nixon
Michael
|
$400
[29]
It's the English translation of René Descartes' dictum "cogito, ergo sum"
I think, therefore I am
Karen
|
$400
[25]
Once used to mean lust, it's now a 2-syllable synonym for indigestion
heartburn
|
$400
[18]
This town in Provence gave its name to a Dutch royal house
Orange
Michael
|
|
$800
[6]
This mythical giant whose camp stove was said to cover an acre got credit for creating Puget Sound & the Black Hills
Paul Bunyan
Iris
|
$800
[10]
Dua Lipa's "Love Again" samples a cover of "My Woman", a song co-written by this "White Christmas" crooner
Bing Crosby
Iris
|
$800
[27]
A distant relation of an 1850s president:Barbara Pierce
Bush
Karen
|
$800
[23]
Thomism is a school of thought named for this 13th c. theologian who tried to reconcile Aristotle with Christianity
Thomas Aquinas
Karen
|
$800
[20]
Now meaning able to use both hands equally, it once denoted deceit
ambidextrous
Michael
|
$800
[17]
This capital of France's Loiret départements is old, not new
Orleans
Michael
|
|
$1,200
[5]
There's a statue of this guy, hammer in hand, outside the Great Bend Tunnel in West Virginia
John Henry
|
$1,200
[7]
Okurrr!Thiswoman samples the boogaloo song "I Like It Like That" on a 2018 hit
Cardi B
Iris
|
$1,200
[11]
Wife of a war hero:Julia Dent
(Julia) Grant
Michael
|
$1,200
[19]
Tranquility of mind is important in this -ism taught by its founder Zeno from a porch in Athens
Stoicism
|
$1,200
[2]
An Italian word for "baby boy", it meant a man, especially one who was inept or dumb, before it meant an attractive but dumb woman
bimbo
Iris
|
$1,200
[16]
What's that smell? Must be all the industrial pollution in this big river that forms part of the Poland-Germany border
the Oder
Michael
|
|
$1,600
[1]
West Virginia has a statue of this half-human, half-insect creature supposedly first sighted in Point Pleasant in the mid-1960s
the Mothman
Karen
|
$1,600
[8]
Grooves from bands like Parliament gave this West Coast subgenre of rap from the early '90s its letter-perfect name
G-funk
|
$1,600
[12]
Stepmom of Alice: Edith Carow
Roosevelt
Michael
|
$1,600
[24]
It may produce the greatest good for the greatest number to know this philosopher was a great advocate of utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
|
$2,000
[4]
This adjective that means moody or readily evaporating comes from Latin for "to fly"; it once meant a flying creature
volatile
Karen
|
$1,600
[14]
From northern Scotland, cross the Pentland Firth to get to these islands
the Orkneys
Karen
Michael
|
|
DD
$4,800
[13]
Legend says the woman with this nickname crucially carried water at the Battle of Monmouth
Molly Pitcher
Michael
|
$2,000
[9]
"Levels" by this late Swedish DJ samples "Something's Got A Hold On Me" by Etta James
Avicii
Karen
|
$2,000
[22]
A big help to her disabled husband:Edith Bolling
Wilson
Karen
|
$2,000
[21]
Attributed to this mathematician & philosopher of ancient Greece is the observation that "all things are numbers"
Pythagoras
Iris
Michael
|
DD
$2,500
[3]
Before it meant any chain of islands, Archipelago was another name for this arm of the Mediterranean Sea
the Aegean Sea
Iris
|
$2,000
[15]
It's home to the immersive digital museum Viking Planet
Oslo
Michael
|
The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates
Dead Man Walking